lucas

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[–] lucas@startrek.website 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have a sunlu printer (S9+), it was a very good price, it works well enough, and I consider it was worth it for me, BUT I 100% agree about support. It came with a flex plate with a kink in it, so I couldn't use the full build area. Reached out to support about it. Just never replied, at all. As far as I can tell the support does not actually exist. Since it was only the removable magnetic plate, I could replace it myself cheaply enough, but if I'd had a bigger issue, it could've been a nightmare...

[–] lucas@startrek.website 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In the same way vibe coding has transformed software development

So, that is to say, they expect it to have no impact on serious work whatsoever?

[–] lucas@startrek.website 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Surely, if you forget it's even running, you aren't using it, and it doesn't matter if it stops running? (With a couple of obvious exceptions like automated backups, etc)

[–] lucas@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

If you're using the AIO image, backup/restore can handled for you, so no need to worry about the manual steps involved. Or if you're using a VM, a backup can take the form of full system snapshots, so also no need to understand how data are stored. Granted it's always helpful to know what your running, but not necessarily requisite, even for backups.

[–] lucas@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

Absolutely. I actually have an upgrade already planned, but it's just that it's not because I can't run VMs, it's more that I want to run more hungry services than will fit on those resources, whatever virtualisation layers were being used. The fact that it's an easy fix to more a VM/lxc to a new host is absolutely it, though.

[–] lucas@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Am I looking at the wrong device? Beelink EQ15 looks like it has an N150 and looks like 16GB of ram? That's plenty for quite few VMs. I run an N100 minipc with only 8GB of RAM and about half a dozen VMs and a similar number of LXC containers. As long as you're careful about only provisioning what each VM actually needs, it can be plenty.

[–] lucas@startrek.website 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Why would you use an LLM for this? This sounds like a process easily handled by conventional logic, which would be cheaper, faster, and actually reliable... (The 'notes' part notwithstanding I guess, but calculations in general are definitely not a good use of an LLM)

[–] lucas@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

Or use both. That's what I do, they serve suitably different needs for different situations, even if there is an overlap, and it's not like they're heavy tools

[–] lucas@startrek.website 5 points 4 months ago

But then for that you have distrobox, which is great. If that's not enough, running another OS is also trivial, so that downside really is only 'kinda', as you say!

[–] lucas@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Don't even need to remote in to anything, just store your working code on a network share

[–] lucas@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago

Grew up on Armada and Away Team, but of those, Away Team was definitely my favourite!

More recently played Elite Force, which was also pretty dang great.

[–] lucas@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not sure why people here are all arguing about why you would want to use discs, rather than the fact that the Steam Deck is a PC, of course you can absolutely used discs. All you need to do is plug in a USB disc drive, and it's ready to go. I've installed a bunch of my older PC games from CD/DVD that way, and it works great. Even under Linux, applications like Lutris make installing Windows game discs pretty easy, and once they're installed, you're ready to go.

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